Optimizing waist circumference cut-points for the metabolic syndrome in a South African cohort at 3-year follow-up: the SABPA prospective cohort

Endocrine

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 959-961

  Hoebel, Svelka ^a   Malan, Leoné ^a   Botha, Judith ^b   Swanepoel, Mariëtte ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b Sport Management Centurion Academy   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JOINT INTERIM STATEMENT WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; LETTER; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PREVALENCE; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; SCREENING TEST; SOUTH AFRICAN; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT; BLACK PERSON; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911950614     PISSN: 1355008X     EISSN: 15590100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12020-014-0237-7     Document Type: Letter

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